Fluctuations in prejudice do not track fluctuations in ordinary contact in three 5-wave “Shortitudinal” studies examining daily, weekly, or monthly intervals

Shulman, Deborah, Meleady, Rose ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4671-4960, Hodson, Gordon and Crisp, Richard J. (2024) Fluctuations in prejudice do not track fluctuations in ordinary contact in three 5-wave “Shortitudinal” studies examining daily, weekly, or monthly intervals. Social Psychological and Personality Science. ISSN 1948-5506 (In Press)

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Abstract

Intergroup contact is regarded as one of the most effective ways to reduce prejudice. However, recent longitudinal studies using contemporary statistical techniques (e.g., random intercept cross-lagged panel models [RI-CLPM]) have failed to find evidence of within-person changes in prejudice following contact fluctuations. We propose that past time-lags may have been too long to capture change, and conducted three studies with shorter time-lags of single days, weeks, or months. We also considered effects of positive versus negative contact frequency. We consistently found that people who are less prejudiced have more contact (i.e., between-person effects), however fluctuations in naturally-occurring contact were not followed by corresponding within-person changes in prejudice, suggesting shorter-term contact fluctuations are detached from prejudice. With abundant support for contact in the field, we argue that prejudice may be impacted by major contact events, or through gradually acquired cumulative experiences, but effects are not apparent when examining “thin-slices” of time.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Data Availability: OSF link: https://osf.io/vtsyu/?view_only=7d13762f3ea84f8db18031e35a7a9488 Funding information: This research was supported by a grant from the Leverhulme Trust (R209595).
Uncontrolled Keywords:	intergroup contact,prejudice,random intercept cross-lagged panel model,shortitudinal research,4* ,/dk/atira/pure/researchoutput/REFrank/4_
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Cognition, Action and Perception Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Social Cognition Research Group
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	28 Aug 2024 10:30
Last Modified:	25 Sep 2024 18:03
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/96367
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